Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

Similarities and parallels between Physics and Marketing

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

The title of this seven minute TED Talk from Dan Cobley is "What physics taught me about marketing."  Dan draws parallels between marketing and four major principals in physics. 1.  Rearranging Newton's Second Law gives us acceleration equals force over mass. Meaning the larger a particle is, the more force it takes to change direction. ...

Visualizing the Mariana Trench [To Scale]

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

This visualization at i-am-bored.com puts the Mariana Trench into (some) perspective:

ArXiv.org

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Recently rediscovered ArXiv.org -- an online repository for free papers on Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. Nearly a 100 percent of everything on the site makes me feel stupid so I just glean the site's very specifically focused papers for buzzwords and neato graphics, like the ...

Quick Links: Beck and brain mapping

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "Run Run Run" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo. Beck covers the Velvet Underground & Nico album in one day. (via Brain Pickings) The NIH sets a goal to complete a region-to-region map of the brain in five years by encouraging collaboration among neuroscientists.